Commercial Traveller's Tax.
(Per Press Association.) 1 Sydney, May 20. < The conference of members of * Jhambers of Commerce lias com ' lieucod. In a puper on " Commercial j elatious with the outride world," ' ■Sydney strongly condemned tlic New 1 Zealand lax on commercial travellers, ' which was a survival of old jealous provincial narrowness. At the liarbor excursiou tendered the ie.'egates, Mr MeCorijuodale, of Anck- * and, in referring to the same .subject, ! «iid he felt thoroughly ashamed of the tax. 11:! had uo doubt that before l^Dg I it, \voui-! be realise d thnt the feeliog of ' mercantile mrn in New Zealand, as else- ! where, was so stron." agninst the tax thai it would he ah;;!ishcd. ft Ikml given rise to a lot of ill feeling which otherwise would not have existed.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 271, 21 May 1897, Page 2
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130Commercial Traveller's Tax. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 271, 21 May 1897, Page 2
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